Seahawks RB Rashaad Penny sidelined for remainder of season

Seattle Seahawks operating again Rashaad Penny suffered a damaged fibula and injured his tibia in his left leg on Sunday and can miss the remainder of the season, coach Pete Carroll stated Monday.

Penny would require surgical procedure.

“It’ll be a haul for him. That is what they consult with as a tib/fib incident. He broke his fibula and cracked that, however it’s the high-ankle sprain component of it that makes it troublesome. And there is a explicit surgical procedure that they do to attach and tighten down these bones,” Carroll stated on Seattle Sports activities 710 AM on Monday.

“It’ll take quite a few months, so he will miss the season. It is actually a heartbreaker for a child that has actually bounced again into the limelight of our program and for us and all, and for himself. He is been by such a protracted haul that it is actually only a heartbreaking loss for him. He’d been doing nice and all people may see it and we have been so excited for him. … It is a actually clear surgical procedure course of and all that, however it simply does take a very long time.”

Penny, who broke out late final season after an injury-filled begin to his profession, went down on the finish of a carry within the third quarter of the Seahawks’ 39-32 loss to the New Orleans Saints. He hobbled to the Seahawks’ bench with help from somebody on both aspect of him, unable to place weight on his left leg. Earlier than he was carted into the locker room, Penny was hanging his head whereas being tended to by the staff physician and head athletic coach.

Penny carried eight instances for 54 yards Sunday earlier than his damage. After he went down, rookie second-round Ken Walker broke free for a 69-yard landing run that briefly gave Seattle a one-point lead within the fourth quarter.

Penny’s newest damage comes after his emergence as one of many NFL’s most efficient operating backs. He led the league with 671 speeding yards over the ultimate 5 video games of final season, which was 208 greater than anybody else in that span. After a quiet begin to 2022, he exploded for 151 yards and two touchdowns on 17 carries final week in a efficiency that was harking back to his late-season surge.

Earlier than that breakout, Penny’s profession had been marred by a protracted checklist of accidents. The twenty seventh total choose in 2018, he missed 30 of a potential 69 video games (together with playoffs) as a result of damage over his first three seasons. That included a torn ACL on 2019 that sidelined him for a lot of 2021.

Penny has talked brazenly about how a lot his accidents have weighed on him, saying lately that he returned to Seattle this offseason partly as a result of he felt he owed it to the Seahawks given on a regular basis he had missed. The Seahawks introduced Penny again on a one-year, $5.75 million deal that included greater than $5 million in ensures.

With Travis Homer on injured reserve (ribs) for no less than two extra video games and Penny now out, the Seahawks are right down to Walker and DeeJay Dallas at operating again, in order that they’ll should make an addition there. And so they’ll have to show to Walker to paved the way.

ESPN’s Brady Henderson contributed to this report.